Review Request 109610: A new splash screen for kdevelop (animation attached)

[Sven Brauch]

> On March 20, 2013, 11:52 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > Besides the technical details, I think it's interesting to have the splash screen in QML, I wonder if there's much time to get it to load, but well I guess it's fine.
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> > Graphically, I don't really have much taste, so I asked a friend whose taste I trust and he liked it :D. I'm unsure if that's helpful.
> > The only thing I can say is that maybe the colors don't really match the ones we usually use in KDevelop (i.e. the website and the welcome page). But well, I think that we can try it at least and figure out if we want a QML splash screen and maybe change it for another one before releasing.

I actually QTimer'd it, it takes about 5-10ms per redraw (and redraws only happen at each manual update call), so not too bad. I didn't check how long loading the declarative stuff takes, but we do load that anyways for the welcome page (or is that not shared?).

For the colors I'm not sure either, maybe shifting the green to the sides would help, then it would be more green overall... if you like, you can play around with it.

I will also do some fine tuning on it when it is submitted, I just wanted to see if people like the idea before investing too much work. I'll go fix the other patch and then I think I'll push it, and continue improving it "in public" ;)


- Sven


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On March 20, 2013, 8:44 p.m., Sven Brauch wrote:
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> (Updated March 20, 2013, 8:44 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDevelop.
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> Description
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> This is my suggestion for a new splash screen in kdevelop. Sure, application startup is short anyways, but we've had the current splash screen for ages and it's time for something new. ;)
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> Click here for what it looks like: http://files.feorar.org/splash.gif
> Be careful, it's 3.5MB gif.
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> It needs a patch to kdevplatform for the progress info, which I'll submit shortly (it works without too, but you'll only see grey squares).
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> Diffs
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>   pics/misc/kdevelop-splash.xcf fdd2b40cbe7c6096f77519f1706cec3846a29696 
>   pics/misc/kdevelop-splash.png cf161cb634c6c3f24b743706294078eb3ed16d94 
>   app/splash.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   app/splash.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   app/splash.h PRE-CREATION 
>   app/main.cpp 4ad8f05 
>   app/CMakeLists.txt c0e10ed 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/109610/diff/
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> Testing
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> I verified that even if something goes wrong in QML there's no crashes or strange behavior. You'll just get the splash screen without the colorful squares. Thus I think the risk of breaking something with this is low.
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> Thanks,
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> Sven Brauch
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